- 14
- Episodes
- 14
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About Glad I Asked
Introducing Glad I Asked - a podcast rooted in curiosity. Join Sydnee Goodman as she invites guests to join her in exploring what drives people to create lives they're excited about.
- Category
- education · health & fitness · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jul 2023
- Latest episode
- 31 Oct 2023
Latest episodes
14 episodes in the feed.
31 Oct 2023
Video Essays and Creative Invention on YouTube with Nick Robinson
Nick isn’t the first tremendously successful youtuber we’ve had on Glad I Asked, with over 1.2 million subs and videos with 28 million, 14 million, 10 million views, you get the point. But he is the first we’ve had on who has grown a channel that large while posting every couple months or so. What’s always inspired me about Nick is that he started creating video essays before they were the norm on YouTube. His videos never go the way that you think they will and one of his videos is one of two YouTube vids that I’ve cried at the end of. Our conversation is split into two episodes, with the second episode coming out next week, October 24th. We talk a lot about the creative process and how he managed to create a niche for himself, while also not allowing himself fall into a niche. We talk about finding ideas you’re excited about, procrastination, creative invention, work life balance, and how to make sure people actually see your videos. I hope you enjoy this season's finale and have enjoyed season 1 as a whole! 🔥 Follow Nick Robinson 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@babylonian/ (https://www.youtube.com/@babylonian/videos) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Babylonian (https://twitter.com/Babylonian) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babylonian/ (https://www.instagram.com/babylonian/)
24 Oct 2023
Finding Creative Fulfillment *and* Success on YouTube with Nick Robinson
Nick isn’t the first tremendously successful youtuber we’ve had on Glad I Asked, with over 1.2 million subs and videos with 28 million, 14 million, 10 million views, you get the point. But he is the first we’ve had on who has grown a channel that large while posting every couple months or so. What’s always inspired me about Nick is that he started creating video essays before they were the norm on YouTube. His videos never go the way that you think they will and one of his videos is one of two YouTube vids that I’ve cried at the end of. Our conversation is split into two episodes, with the second episode coming out next week, October 24th. We talk a lot about the creative process and how he managed to create a niche for himself, while also not allowing himself fall into a niche. We talk about finding ideas you’re excited about, procrastination, creative invention, work life balance, and how to make sure people actually see your videos. Enjoy the first half of our Season 1 finale! 🔥 Follow Nick Robinson 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@babylonian/ (https://www.youtube.com/@babylonian/videos) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Babylonian (https://twitter.com/Babylonian) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babylonian/ (https://www.instagram.com/babylonian/)
16 Oct 2023
Becoming Valkyrae’s Channel Manager, Fear& Co-Owner and Producer with Marche
He’s behind some of the most watched content on the internet - the channel manager, photographer, and producer behind Valkyrae’s videos and co-owner of Fear& with Hasan and Will Neff. We cover a bunch of - unfortunately - super relatable topics like imposter syndrome, self doubt, knowing when to break the rules, and how Marche moved from production assistant to helping Valkyrae run her content empire and being the co-owner of a podcast with nearly 20,000 patrons on patreon and weekly episodes that average over 300,000 views an episode. 🔥 Follow Marche 🔥 📺 Fear&: https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndPodcast (https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndPodcast) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Marche (https://twitter.com/Marche) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/actuallymarche/ (https://www.instagram.com/actuallymarche/)
3 Oct 2023
Quitting YouTube with Nearly 1 Million Subs w/ Conner Sullivan
This week’s guest is a long time friend of mine, Conner Sullivan! You might recognize Conner from his YouTube channel as an American living in Germany. After playing football at USC, Conner left to play professional American football and found insane success as a YouTuber experirencing the German culture, which catapulted him into having a TV show overseas. And as his channel was approaching 1 million subs, he stopped posting and deleted his social media. In our chat today we talk about the negotiation of creativity and business, experiencing your life thru your phone, our rapidly changing culture, and the positives and cost of being a YouTuber.
27 Sept 2023
BrookeAB on Death Threats, Streaming, + Doing It Anyway
This week’s guest is BrookeAB! You might know Brooke from: 🎥 streaming 🎮 gaming 💯 100 Thieves We chat: 📺 parasocial relationships 💖 loving your therapist 🙌 being unapologetically yourself Brooke has been a staple of Twitch for years - a member of 100 Thieves, she was only their second female content creator signed to the org. She blew up as a Fortnite streamer and has been a vocal advocate for mental health and safety in the space, sharing her experience with stalking and harassment and not letting it stop her from doing what she loves. New episodes every Tues! 🔥 Follow BrookeAB 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrookeAB (https://www.youtube.com/@BrookeAB) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/brookeab (https://twitter.com/brookeab) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brookeabb/ (https://www.instagram.com/brookeabb/) 🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/brookeab (https://www.twitch.tv/brookeab) 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brookeab (https://www.tiktok.com/@brookeab)
19 Sept 2023
Mystic7 on The Strategy Game of YouTube
This week's guest is Mystic7! You might know Brandon from: 🎮 Pokemon Go 🎥 YouTube 🃏 Pokemon TCG We chat: 📚 Picking YouTube > college 😫 Burnout 🕒 Too late to start YouTube now? This week’s guest is Mystic7, who I know as Brandon Martyn. He’s logged over 900 million views on YouTube, with 2.5 million subs creating gaming content, most specifically Pokemon Go. What you might not know is that he originally was making Clash of Clans content. We chat how to transition from one niche to another within YouTube; what caused him to almost stop making content; skipping college to pursue YouTube; understanding the YouTube algorithm and making it work for you; old vs. new YouTube; how to succeed on YouTube starting a channel from scratch today; and a lot more YouTube. 🔥 Follow Mystic7 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MYSTlC7 (https://www.youtube.com/@MYSTlC7) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MYSTIC7 (https://twitter.com/MYSTIC7) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mystic7/ (https://www.instagram.com/mystic7/) 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realmystic7 (https://www.tiktok.com/@realmystic7) 🔥 Follow Mystic Rips 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mystic7rips (https://www.youtube.com/@mystic7rips) 🐦 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/mb4jrhafqc (https://discord.com/invite/mb4jrhafqc) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mysticrips/ (https://www.instagram.com/mysticrips/) 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mysticrips (https://www.tiktok.com/@mysticrips) New episodes every Tuesday!
12 Sept 2023
From Side Hustle to Full Time: Overcoming Doubt & Perfectionism w/ Puni Petals
This week’s guest is the lovely Puni Petals! You might know her from: 🌸 floral sculptures 🌼 community workshops 🌷 floral courses We chat: 🚀 turning a side hustle into a full-time project 🎨 being an evolving creative ⏳ not waiting to start Puni's floral business has taken off working with both personal clients and corporate clients like Amazon, Summer Fridays, and even luxury clients that cannot be named bc she had to sign a non disclosure agreement. We talk about being a creative entrepreneur, putting yourself and your business out there, how she’s managed to find huge success so quickly, expanding your business and ideas, and how hard it is making friends as an adult. 🔥 Follow Puni Petals 🔥 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puni.petals/ (https://www.instagram.com/puni.petals/) 💃 Website: https://www.punipetals.com/send-flowers (https://www.punipetals.com/send-flowers) 🔥 Follow Syd 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/sydsogood 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sydsogood 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/sydsogood/ 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sydsogood?lang=en 👻 Snap: https://snapchat.com/add/sydsogood 🔥 Follow Glad I Asked 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEU6osmBekmIQrbBpyCWTZw 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/GladIAskedpod 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/gladiasked?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gladiaskedpod?lang=en New episodes every Tuesday!
5 Sept 2023
Building a Career In Front and Behind The Camera w/ Garrick Bernard
This week’s guest is Garrick Bernard! You might know him from: 🥂 Freeform’s Single Drunk Female 🖋️ Writing on Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, and/or Lower Decks 🎙️ His podcasts: Guilty Pleasures or The Formula Ones We chat: 🛤️ Making a hard left in your career 🌐 Importance of hobbies 🏎️ Formula 1 Garrick has managed to build a career both in front and behind the camera as a comedian, actor, and writer. He plays James on Freeform’s Single Drunk Female and has written on Solar Opposites, Lower Decks, and Rick and Morty. You might also know him from his podcasts, The Formula Ones and Guilty Pleasures. This week, we talk about how Garrick has built his impressive resume, the importance of hobbies, how Garrick found his career after dropping out of LMU’s mechanical engineering program, managing your parents’ expectations, and - of course - Formula One. New episodes of Glad I Asked drop every Tuesday! 🔥 Follow Garrick 🔥 📺 Website: https://www.garrickbernard.com/welcome (https://www.garrickbernard.com/welcome) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/garrickbernard (https://twitter.com/garrickbernard) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garrickbernard/ (https://www.instagram.com/garrickbernard/) 🔥 Follow Syd 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/sydsogood 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sydsogood 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/sydsogood/ 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sydsogood?lang=en 👻 Snap: https://snapchat.com/add/sydsogood
29 Aug 2023
Ethics of True Crime, How Far Is Too Far for Content w/ Aria Inthavong
This week’s guest is Aria Inthavong! You might know him from: 🚀 BuzzFeed 🔍 Solving the Disappearance of His Dad’s Best Friend 🎥 His True Crime Videos We chat: 🕵️♂️ Ethics of True Crime 🌍 Being a Third Culture Kid 🎨 His Experiences Funnel Into His Art Maybe you know him from his videos at BuzzFeed or from his Youtube channel, where he’s created videos ranging from training to fight in an MMA fight in only four months (!!!) to solving the disappearance of his dad’s best friend (the man has range). We hit on the ethics of true crime; how being Lao and growing up in Singapore, Thailand, Laos, and America - while spending a good amount of time in France affects his art and perspective; and, of course, we talk a little about film. 🔥 Follow Aria 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ariapresents (https://www.youtube.com/c/ariapresents) 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ariainthavong (https://twitter.com/ariainthavong) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ariainthavong/ (https://www.instagram.com/ariainthavong/) 🔥 Follow Syd 🔥 📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/sydsogood 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sydsogood 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/sydsogood/ 💃 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sydsogood?lang=en 👻 Snap: https://snapchat.com/add/sydsogood
22 Aug 2023
The Creative Path Less Taken w/ Laz Alberto
Join @sydsogood and Laz Alberto as they chat the life, career, and interests of Laz. You might know Laz from: ⏰ Tiktok 🎤 host of The Early Show for Amazon’s AMP Radio 🎧 his podcast: Reel Friends We chat: 🖌️being a creative 🕴️fulfilling careers 🙂fulfillment in a creative career About Laz: You might know him from his music content on TikTok, where he has over 500,000 followers; as host of The Early Show for Amazon’s AMP Radio; or perhaps you’re a fan of his film podcast, Reel Friends. Introducing Glad I Asked - a podcast rooted in curiosity. Join Sydnee Goodman as she invites guests to join her in exploring what drives people to create lives they're excited about.
15 Aug 2023
Brondin Plett on Creating a Career That Doesn’t Yet Exist
This week we chat with Brodin Plett! Maybe you know him from his work with Offline TV, where he’s their creative director. Or perhaps you’re a fan of his wit on social media, specifically his instagram captions. Or maybe you’re one of hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners of his music project, templuv. We talk about finding your career path and how often times it finds you. How saying yes to opportunities and putting one foot in front of the other eventually can land you in a position where you’re orchestrating a goodbye video for Pokimane. You can find Brodin across Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram as brodinplett and on YouTube as Brofain.
8 Aug 2023
A Case Against Niching Down w/ Akilah Hughes
Join Sydnee Goodman and Akilah Hughes as they chat the life, career, and interests of Akilah. Akilah started her career on YouTube and since has transitioned to comedy, writing (both for tv and she’s an author!), acting, and podcast hosting. You might recognize her from her time hosting Crooked Media’s What A Day podcast! Unlike many people in entertainment, Akilah has navigated the industry as a woman from Kentucky with no prior industry connections. We hit some common big questions like niching down and knowing when to say no to (huge) opportunities. You can find Akilah Hughes across Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok as AkilahObviously and on Instagram as AkilahH. New episodes every Tuesday!
6 Aug 2023
JHBTeam on Building A Personal Brand and 100 Thieves BTS
JHBTeam shares his experience building a recognizable personal brand and maintaining it. In this episode, we talk about JHB's personal and career journey, his start as a content creator, managing audience expectations the creative experience and process, and plenty of tangents in between. JHBTeam is a content creator for 100 Thieves who's awkward persona has almost everyone relating to him. He's in the unique position of being both a content creator and traditional employee for 100 Thieves (he's a member of their social media team). He's a film lover and a passionate Daft Punk fan. And we are stoked to have him on this week as our guest! You can find JHB across all socials as JHBTeam (except Instagram, where he is JHBTeamm). ---- Glad I Asked is a new podcast by Sydnee Goodman where she explores the minds of other curious creatives to see how they're creating a life they're excited to be living. New episodes every Tuesday!
11 Jul 2023
NoahJ456 on YouTube Success and DJ Secrets
NoahJ456 shares his insights on his success on YouTube for over a decade and how he's managed to turn a love for music into a DJ side quest. In this episode, we talk about Noah's personal and career journey, DJing and music, overcoming creative hurdles, his early days on YouTube, and plenty of tangents in between. NoahJ is a content creator for 100 Thieves who's amassed more than 5 million subscribers on YouTube. He's a DJ, OG Call of Duty Zombies YouTuber, and good friend of Syd's. You can find Noah across all social media as NoahJ456. ---- Glad I Asked is a new podcast by Sydnee Goodman where she explores the minds of other curious creatives to see how they're creating a life they're excited to be living. New episodes every Tuesday!
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